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FISICOS (FIS2007-60327)
FISICOS: FIsica Interdisciplinar de SIstemas COmplejoS
Consolider-C, Physics National Program, Spanish Ministry for Science and Education
1 Oct 2007- 30 Sep 2012 (5 years).
Budget: 1,318,900 € (390,000 for personnel) + 4 PhD fellowships + 1 technician (5 ys)
External associates: J. J. Cerdá (FIAS Frankfurt)
E. Manjarrez (Puebla)
EPO: MIK
G. Pipa (FIAS Frankfurt)
SIMPPLE
M. Sorel (Univ. of Glasgow)
Mandarina
D. Centola (Harvard)
Fraunhoffer I N
TEAM
PI: Maxi San Miguel
Co-PI: Raúl Toral
Permanent
Researchers
Pere Colet
V.M. Eguíluz E. Hdez-García C. López
M. Matías
C. Mirasso
T. Sintes
R. Zambrini
FISICOS
postdoc
Senior
Postdocs
(1-X-09)
Feb 08
Damià Gomila Alessandro Scirè
8 PhD fellows
Miguel Pineda
http://ifisc.uib.es - Mallorca - Spain
FISICOS (FIS2007-60327)
Statement: Building upon previously funded projects (PB94-1167 for 5 years, BFM2000-1108:
CONOCE and FIS2004-00953: CONOCE2) we aim to develop interdisciplinary and strategic research
from a common background of studies in Nonlinear Physics and Complex Systems, with methodologies
taken from Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems Theory and Computational Methods.
The research is organized
in a unifying transverse line of exploration and fundamental nature
· Transversal line : Complex systems: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
and 4 targeted research lines which focus on more specific fields:
· Line 1: Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics and Dynamics of Optoelectronic Devices
· Line 2: Fluid dynamics, Biofluids and Geophysical Fluids
· Line 3: Biophysics and Nonlinear Phenomena in Ecology and Physiology
· Line 4: Dynamics and collective phenomena in social systems
General scientific objectives :
a) Exploring: contribute to the development of concepts and methods for the
understanding of generic non-linear phenomena in complex systems.
b) Transferring interdisciplinary transfer of this body of knowledge to the strategic
targeted research sub-lines 1-4.
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COMMITMENT:
The qualitative improvement we propose here is to advance in a more risky
research, avoiding endogenous incremental research and putting emphasis on
interdisciplinary transfer.
Quantitative commitment:
3 years
Total number of SCI publications
99
Aggregated impact index
282
Invited conferences in high level conferences
30
Aggregated impact index in publications
implying strong interdisciplinary transfer
21
5 years
165
470
50
35
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Some specific objectives:
· Develop and test new methodologies to derive macroscopic descriptions of interacting particle systems.
· Characterize dynamics and new cooperative phenomena on complex networks, including weighted and directed
networks.
· Develop self-consistent methods in the treatment of excitable systems, in particular in synchronization problems.
· Light beam control with photonic crystals and metamaterials.
· Characterize quantum states and entanglement in beams carrying orbital angular momentum.
· Security aspects in optical communication based on chaos.
· Applications of novel semiconductors laser configurations including microcavities and arrays.
· Obtain a global classification of different scenarios arising in chemically or biologically reacting fluids stirred by
chaotic flows.
· Identify mechanisms by which fluid turbulence influences biological plankton dynamics at different scales.
· Non-linear dynamics study of environmental variability effects on coastal ecological systems.
· To apply complex network techniques to organize genetic data from ecological and evolutionary contexts.
· Understand the role of delayed interactions and fluctuations in the information transmission in neural systems.
· Bring stochastic processes and methods into the context of drug design and modelling.
· Develop methods and tools to manage pattern resilience in physical, ecological and social complex systems.
· Impact the social sciences literature and community in consensus formation and co-evolution of social structure
and agent dynamics.
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